Some of the world’s biggest companies came from the most humble of beginnings. In this article, I have compiled a list of major corporations who’ve each starred in their own rags-to-riches story.
To better understand how to build a world famous company, you need to dive into how other entrepreneurs have created theirs.
Here are seven of the world’s most gigantic businesses that started in garages.

#1 Amazon

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 as an online bookstore. At the time, it was completely run out of his garage in Bellevue, Washington.
He sold his first book in July 1995 and issued his IPO two years later in 1997.
Today, it’s the world’s largest online retailer.

#2 Apple

In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, ages 21 and 26 respectively, started Apple Computers by selling 50 units of Wozniak’s Apple I Computer at $500 apiece to a local retailer. Jobs took the purchase order to a parts distributor and ordered the parts. “The Steves” and their small team hand-built 50 computers in 30 days from a garage in Cupertino, CA.
Today, Apple is the most valuable technology company in the world.

#3 Disney

About 45 minutes down the road from Disneyland Park in Anaheim, CA, there’s a house in Los Angeles where The Walt Disney Company got its start.
In 1923, the house belonged to Walt Disney’s uncle, Robert Disney. Walt and his brother Roy moved in with their uncle and set up “The First Disney Studio” in the one-car garage out back. There they started filming the Alice Comedies which was part of the original Alice’s Wonderland.
Today, Disney is the highest-grossing media conglomerate in the world.

#4 Google

As Stanford Graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin started what’s now known as Google from Susan Wojcicki’s garage in September 1998.
Soon the project was interfering with their schoolwork, so they tried to sell it to Excite for $1 million. Excite rejected the offer and now Google is the most trafficked site and popular search engine in the world.

#5 Nike

Before it became the world’s leading supplier of athletic gear, Nike wasn’t Nike — it was Blue Ribbon Sports. Blue Ribbon Sports operated exclusively out of the trunk a car! That’s right, Nike started in the trunk of a car.
Blue Ribbon Sports was founded in January 1964 by two University of Oregon men; track athlete Knight and his coach, Bill Bowerman.
In 1966, the two opened the company’s first retail store – a Garage – in Santa Monica, Calif, and business grew quickly.
Today, Nike is unarguably one of the world’s biggest sporting accessories companies.

#6 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP in Packard’s garage with an initial investment of $538.
Their first product was an audio oscillator and one of their first customers was Walt Disney, who purchased eight oscillators to develop the sound system for the movie Fantasia.
The HP Garage in Palo Alto is known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley and HP is now one of the largest companies in the world.

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